Friday, January 04, 2013

The possibility of a mayoral byelection just got juicier: Jose Canseco, the former Blue Jays slugger once known for his steroid use and now known for his minimally coherent Twitter musings, is considering a run against Rob Ford.

Or so he says. Jose Canseco says a lot of things. Things like “I actually died over night and came back to life now i am a vampire and you are my apprentice.”

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Shooty: Jose would at least try to do the best he could and not be the puppet of others. As a bonus he would be unlikely to ever engage in class warfare.

Why do you assume this about Jose? What in his CV makes you think he would do anything but do what's good for Jose? He's a clown and, as entertaining as he is, let's not mistake his stupidity and clowning for being a big-hearted lunk.

I'd rather have him as president than what we have now, or the incumbent's last two challengers for that matter.

Assuming you're serious, I'm trying to envision the profile of a voter who, faced with the hypothetical choices of Obama, McCain, and Romney, would say 'I don't want to vote for any of these for president; I wish Jose Canseco was on the ballot'. On second though, the error in my last sentence was probably in the first 3 words.

Jose has finally found the occupation where being an attention junkie works as a positive.

Delorians,

Jose is an upgrade on any of the recent general election candidates for one obvious reason. I think Douglas Adams put it best: "To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job"

I was wondering how long we could keep sending down our ass clowns of entertainment before those sneaky Americans noticed. I guess turnabout is fair play, but this is a little extreme. We'll take back Nickelback and Beiber, but you have to keep Celine Dion - just keep promise to keep Canseco far away from the border, he's 10 pounds of crazy in a 2 pound bag.

That's what I think as well. In the Jose's New Year's resolutions thing that someone posted, Canseco referred to himself as an "A-List" celebrity. I recall last year that he called a press conference and there were pictures showing two people there in an empty hotel conference room.

So yeah, it's funny, but the guy seems to have a tenuous grasp on reality, and I think it will end badly for him. He does not seem to be a crook like Dykstra, but Canseco does seem to be like a dog wandering along a highway.

I was wondering how long we could keep sending down our ass clowns of entertainment before those sneaky Americans noticed. I guess turnabout is fair play, but this is a little extreme. We'll take back Nickelback and Beiber, but you have to keep Celine Dion - just keep promise to keep Canseco far away from the border, he's 10 pounds of crazy in a 2 pound bag.